Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of swear words

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The result was delete. - Daniel.Bryant 06:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of swear words

No real use, unencyclopaedic, no guidelines for what words should be included and which shouldn't. Would seem to be better to use Category:Profanity than this list feb^talk 03:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- SkierRMH 08:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as an indiscriminate list. Otto4711 04:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#IINFO. List that is better suited in a CAT. --[|K.Z|] ^T ^• ^V ^• ^C 05:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per WP:LIST. The list is informative, even if not particularly englightening. Unlike Category:Profanity, this list includes definitions after each of the terms, so it aids in navigation. By WP:LIST, it should stay. However, I do believe it should be rephrased to the more verifiable title List of profane words. -- Black Falcon 05:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Question: Doesn't your comment sort of point out WP:NOT#DICTIONARY, particularly #2? -- feb^talk 13:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In other words: It's a dictionary of swear words. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. List of profanities (AfD discussion) was deleted for being a dictionary, too. There is no navigational purpose to this list, because it doesn't link to articles on the words. The articles that are bluelinked, such as lance (a thing) and Gaylord (a name disambiguation), have nothing to do with the words and are pretty much bluelinked by accident. Dictionary articles on the words will be found on the project that is a dictionary: Wiktionary. Wiktionary has plenty of lists of swear words and profanities that editors who want to be lexicographers can work on, such as wikt:Category:Vulgarities, and wikt:Category:Swear words by language, for examples. Uncle G 13:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - True, those blue-links don't link to the words, but others like honky and wanker do. In any case, my goal was not to keep this list as is, but to keep and see it improved with encyclopedic content (such as information on origins, commonality of use, geographic distribution of use, etc.). However, as I doubt anyone will, I have removed by suggestion to "keep". I do agree with you and the nominator that the list cannot remain as it is. I though it could be expanded, but upon further consideration, I seem to have overestimated its potential for expansion. Cheers, Black Falcon 17:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete what exactly is a swear word anyway, and how do we verify it? Rklawton 07:03, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It serves no purpose--Cometstyles 13:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The article is yet another dictionary of words, mostly slang words, many of which are not, in fact used to swear. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, of slang or otherwise. Its articles are not dictionary articles, nor are they dictionaries in their own rights. wikt:Category:English swear words is the proper place for this, and it already exists. Delete. Uncle G 13:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not a dictionary. If the information on each word were expanded, it would have to be done in a non-dictionary, encyclopedic way, and I don't see how that's possible when the list clearly focuses on words, which is just the focus of Wictionary, not Wikipedia.Noroton 18:03, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteCategory:Profanity would work much better. Dfrg.msc 21:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per msc. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 00:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the others...and really, what qualifies as a swear word? "Krutz" isn't even on the list. --UsaSatsui 16:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Joie de Vivre 18:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A large majority of these words aren't swear words, they're slang. What's the point, seriously? 80.41.104.38 20:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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